Bard Center for Environmental Policy presents
National Climate Seminar: The Power Dialog, 10,000 Student Voices
Dr. Dallas Burtaw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The National Climate Seminar is a biweekly, dial-in conversation and podcast that features climate scientists, political leaders, and policy analysts, each exploring the politics and science driving critical climate change decisions. Join us the first and third Wednesday of each month at noon eastern for a chance to connect with experts on climate and clean energy solutions.
On October 7th, Dr. Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future. Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficient and politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electricity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly interested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notable of which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introduce greater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act. Burtraw’s current areas of research include analysis of the distributional and regional consequences of various approaches to national climate policy. Burtraw and his colleagues recently completed a major project on estimating benefits of the value of natural resources in the Adirondack Park through surveying area residents on their willingness to pay for improvements. He also served on California’s Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee advising the governor’s office and the Air Resources Board on implementation of the state’s climate law. Read about Dallas' work here.
Download: NCS_Fall_2015.pdf
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://www.bard.edu/cep.
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Albee B102
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